Heavy Rain wins the GAME DESIGNERS AWARD 2010 during the JAPAN GAMES AWARDS ceremony organized every year during the Tokyo Game Show.

This prize is awarded by a comity of 10 world-class Japanese video game creators and rewards the game that, in their eyes, represents the most original and innovative project of the year: Famito Ueda (Ico, Shadow of the Colossus), Hideki Kamiya (Devil May Cry, Okami, Bayonetta), Shuu Tukami (Phoenix Wright, Ghost Trick), Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil, Vanquish), Jin Fujisawa (Dragon Quest), Jiro Ishii (White Knight Chronicles), Kazutoshi Ida (Killer7, No More Heroes), Masayochi Kikuchi (Yakuza, Panzer Dragoon Zwei), Keiichiro Sotoyama (Silent Hill, forbidden Siren) and Hifumi Kouno (Infinite Space).